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Men women and children to board a.
the Valley House. Table unsurpassed
IN this CITY. Larder' constantly suppleo
w;th all the deiicacies of the season.
r-s s nv most skillful cooks.
Meals. meal tickets, board BY Gay
vsek or month at most reasonable rabes.
VALLEY HOUSE, SALT LAXEClT1
q. L. HALL, Prop
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Ar All reasons.

At the Occidental the beverages
c )ncocted, whether in the winter,
spring, summer or fall, are delicious,
pare and superior. Full stock of spirit
7ous, viuous ana ermented liquors and
c loice cigars. Family trade speciality.
AUER 81 MURPHY. Proprietors.
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Pleasant Grove Raided.

s special dispatch received in this
city yesterday states that that village
was raided by deputies yesterday, and
Charles Richens and John Harris
were arrested. Several residences were
searched, but without any avail,
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Madame Button

Has now opened the store formerly
occupied By Bamberger, No. 70 ?;
Main Street, with a new line OF
Millinery Goods. Call and examine Z
her stock, which consists of all the
latest New York and San Francisco
STYLES. Flowers and Straw Goods 3
specially;
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Auction. AuctionI

On Monday. April 18th. at IL am, at
the City Hotel No. IA w. First South
Street, half block west of HERALD
office. Household goods of all kinds.
parlor. bedroom, dining room and
kitchen furniture; also fine organ; a
new, latest improved, Singer sewing
machine; cost $50 two months ago; a
lot Of house plants; fine large range.
Lots OF goods to be sold. Come and
get them. ]. L. DUReIN,
AIctioneer.
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$40 ReHard

for horse, black with white right hind
foot. branded on left thigh with half
circle over and under H Strayed from
the West End Store. Fifteenth Ward.
Above reward Will be paid to who re-
turns the same TO. H. Fe Evans, West
Enc Store. Fifteenth Ward. =
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Meohanfos Attention.. Special Sale.

Having secured the entire line of
samples OF the agent of J. NJ. c.
Marin 4 Sons. New York, the largest
Brush makers in the world, we now
have line of over 1000 different kinds
of the finest brushes for mechanics
use which for thirty days we offer at
strict prime Cos-. Now - your chance,
G. F. CULMBR & Bios.
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f. Auerbach & Bro.

offer in their Bargain Sale, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 300
Baby Coats and C.oaks, the choicest
and cheapest ever offered since Utah's
best crop first started.
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FoR thirty days, we will sell all kinds
OF Furniture at Cost, rather than mov-
ing, at BARRATT Bios.
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Houss and Lot for Sale

A1ine corner lot. with a good house.
ETC., situated in Twentieth Ward, for
sale. Inquire at this Office.
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Bailey s. Son

Have jus. received fresh lot of Grass
and Garden Seeds, I
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TIE best saddle horses at Grant Bros.
Something New

and STYLISH in Upholstery Goods, look
in DINWooDEY's windows.
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Tart Club House and Restaurans.

At the Driving Park. now open, under
the management of Bechtol Il Sands.
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TIE finest livery turnouts at Grant
Bros. Co. !
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REAL ESTATE.
A Week Of Continued Life and
Activity.

The activity in real estate circles, or
the boom, as some do not hesitate 10
call it, has kept up well during the
past week. Besides the several sales
noted by THE HERALD since Sunday
last, the following have taken place.
BY LYNCH & GLAssMAN.
The old Godbe-McCornick homestead
on the State Road, a block and half
south Of the Theatre, was sold by'F j.
2: Pascoe, yesterday, to ]. Eisenmann,
of Nevada, for s., GOO. Mr.. McCornlch
sold it to J. Q. Mather for SD. ZOO, MI.
Mather sold it to Mr.. Pascoe for S1O, G0O,
and Mr.. Pascoe now sells it for the
above named figure.
Geo. W. Carter sold the 3xl0 lot with
frame house, adjoining the Metropoil-
tan Hotel. TO Hermann Hill for So 900.
Ed. Swan sold the piece Immediately
east of this, 3Lx10. with frame house,
to Mr.. Hill for $4,000.
BY ]. E. GILLESPIE.
James Bird to Gillespie e. Kelsey
house of six rooms, lot 39xi65 feet OF
ground, south of Continental Hotel
West Temple Street-$4,5 80.
|. DR.. Wesley to Louis r. Enrich, OF
Colorado Springs; ten-acre block oppo-
site the southeast corner OF Liberty
Park, on Drive-$6,C GOO.
Henry Robson to Ed. McCarrick;
house of six rooms, lot 66xll0 feet OF
ground, two blocks north of Captain
Hooper's residence 200.
William Thorn to a. l.. Smith fifteen
acres Of land on West Driye-S6, 900.
J.. K. Gillespie to j. NJ. Bemis; lot on
Mob Hill, Sx9 rods of ground, on corner
5000. .
j. K. Gillespie passed the deed, yes
terday, to a. L. Smith, of Burlington,
Iowa, for the st. James Hotel corner
$50 ,000-on which there is to be mag
nificent frst-class hotel erected.
1t was stated by several real estate
agents yesterday that the Metropolitan
Hotel cJrner with the two pieces &C
quired by him during the week had
been sold by Hermann Hill to 6. 5.
Erb Cor something like $4,000. 1t was
impossible to confirm this report last
evening, though it is thought TO be true.
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Ma. GEORGE DUEFoRD, of Dunford &
Sons, was released ON the Penitentiary
Yesterday, he having served out his term of
imprisonment on the going charge.
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WELLS. FARGO e. Co.'S. shipments
yesterday were: Fine bars valued at 1920.
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CHING TAI, The Chinaman recently
held 10 await the action of the Grand Jury
on the charge OF assault. is free once more,
the Grand Jury refusing to indict. Ching
wilt BE- 'ramem bered as the individual who
fired several shots at boy named Wegeland.
who, IN company. with Others, had abused
the Cinnamon by prltiug him with stones,
and otherwise making life burden.
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
SALT LALE CITY, April %, 1887.
(signaI Service, U.S.A.)
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-19
The Martyred Heroes Revered
Memories Flltingly Hon
ored In Denver.
THEY Died FOR HUMANITY
Unity Church Holds the Largest Asdi.
dIeuee Ever within
Its Doors.

The Denver Socialists early last
week made arrangements to hold
funeral or memorial service to
the memory Of the labor agitators
whose lives we're offered up in
Chicago on Friday last. To that
end the committee of arrange
>ments rented West Turner hall
and advertised the meeting to take
place there.
The proprietor of the hall, how
ever, was waited upon by "a few
Of the leading citizens and given
to understand that if he allowed
the Socialists the use of the hall
for the purpose ofshowing respect
to the men murdered in Chicago
they, "the leading citizens would
see that his business was ruined.
AS they were rich men the propri-
etor, naturally enough, refused to
allow the Socialists the use of the
hall. That was boycott number
one The committee then made
arrangements with the agents of
the East Turner hall and it was
engaged for the occasion.
1t is not definitely known that
the same committee of leading
citizens" waited on the proprietors
Of the aforementioned hall but GER
tain it is that after the meeting
had been duly advertised to be
held there the owners changed
their minds and refused uncondi-
tionally to rent the hall to the So
cialists. This was boycott number
two. Under those circumstances
the Socialists were compelled to
fall back on old Unity church.
AT 4 o'clock on Sunday after
noon a large gathering crowded
the old church, even the aisles
being packed with standing peo-
pie. Outside hundreds gathered
unable to gain admittance,
Several policemen had, at the
request of the arrangements COM
mittee, been furnished to preserve
order on the outside. The better
classes" having made their boasts
that no meeting would be allowed
and having, it was feared, made
arrangements to have on hand a
gang of hoodlums for the purpose
Of raising a riot or disturbance,
the presence of a few police was
thought advisable and it was a
happy thought on the part of the
committee of arrangements.
Inside the church was draped
heavily especially around the pull
pit the recess Immediately behind
the pulpit containing large
American flag over which
stretched a red flag draped in
deepest black and over all were
the pictures Of the martyrs in a
large frame bordered with heavi-
est crepe. On the right of the
pulpit was a representation Of
drawn curtains disclosing the SEN
ument, They Died For Human
ny, On the left hung a scroll
with the inscribed words. John
Brown Died But His Cause Lived"
On the walls of the church we're
hung on banners of white the last
words the martyrs spoke on the
gallows.
Mrs, Arthur Cheesewright occu-
pea the chair and called the meet
ing TO order at 2:3o o'clock. The
ehair {, announced the purpose of
u 'ne meeting to be the paying Of
the last tribute of respect to the
murdered comrades whose lives
were v offered up for Humanity on
~c Eleventh of November.
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Tears and Sobs of Hearlbroken
Wives Mingled with Walls
offender Orphans.
HOW LONG, . GOD, HOW LONG!
win 1Annsn Never Lsse Ms Power
T. Anrdsr and Destroy Ne
Pser's Dslsadersl

The following. from a Chicago
capitalist paper. are a few of the
many sad scenes connected with
the murder of our comrades in
Chicago:
The Knights of Labor had full
charge of Parsons body and his
portion of the parade. The pail
bearers, selected from a crowd of
applicants, we're Joseph R. Buch-
anan of the Labor Enquirer; Dysr
D. Lum of the Alayw, Parsons
old paper; DR.. Randall of the
Chicago Express; Lucien S. Oliver.
president of the Amnesty Associ-
alton; William Holmes and M.
Walters of local assembly 1907.
Following the pall-bearers was
a delegation from the Knights Of
Labor bearing flowers. The exec
utive board of district assembly.
No. "a came next, and included
Master Workman Robert Nelson,
George Schilling, H. Parker, John
Christello, w. Hughes, George
Rohrback and August Hanting.
~ -
Standing few feet away from
the casket engaged in subdued
conversation we're the leading men
of district assembly No. "a, Of
which Parsons at one time was
master workman. In an adjoining
room Mrs. Parsons was surrounded
by friends, who did their utmost
to console her. 1t was hopeless
task. At intervals the throng
passing through would be startled
by piercing. long-drawn shrek,
as of a soul racked in agony.
Several times the distracted
woman made a frenzied attempt
to break into the room and fall
upon the. body of her husband.
She was held back by loving
hands until the last moment,
when the word came that the time
had come to take up the march to
the grave. Supported by Mrs.
Ames and Mrs. Buchanan the
lwife of the dead Parsons was led
into the room. She was not the
Mrs. Parsons of old. Grief had
traced its landmarks upon the
comely features; long hours, days,
weeks, and months of fearful sus-
pense had been ended by an aw-
full tragedy. With a moan scarcely
human in its thrilling intensity,
she fell upon the body of him
whom she loved so we'll in life and
will worship in death. None there
were who dared touch her in that
trying moment. She muttered
incoherent sentences in which
nothing but the words albert
and husband" were ineligible.
Raising herself by an effort she
would have fallen to the floor but
for the strong arms that were held
out to her. She was carried into
an adjoining room and restored
to consciousness. The undertaken
stepped forward and with skilful
hands placed the cover in position
and the form of Albert R. Parsons
was hid from human view forever.
sInserted upon a silver plate
were these words:
............. .....'..
\
:: ALBERT R. PARSONS,
/ Age 20 years.
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Che REPRESENTATION measpres. Il.

became a Republican. and conse-
qnently incurred the hatred oi
many former army comrades,
neighbors, and the Kn-K Klu,s- Kan.
as well as the love Of the enfran-
chised slaves.
Of course. the Spectator could
not live in such an atmosphere.
In 1869 he was appointed travel
ling correspondent and agent for
the Houston DAILY 7xlky1spk.
It was during trip through
Johnson county that he first met
the charming young Spanish In
dian maiden, who, three years
later, became his wife. She lived
in most beautiful region of coun-
try, on her uncle's ranch near Buff
falo creek. He fingered in this
neighborhood as long as he could,
and then pursued his journey with
fair success. In 1870, at twenty
one years of age, he was appointed
assistant assessor of the United
States internal revenue, under
General Grants administration.
About year later he was elected
one of the secretaries Of the Texas
state senate, and was soon after
appointed chief deputy collector
of the United States internal reve-
nue., at Austin, Texas, which posi-
tion he held. accounting satisfac-
torily for large sums of money,
until 1873, when he resigned the
position. In August, 1873. he ac-
companied an editorial excursion.
as the representative of the Texas
Ag71ealtx,1st at-Austin, Texas, and
in company with a large delega-
ton of Texas editors. made an
extended tour through Texas,
Indtsn nation, Missouri. Iowa. fIli-
nofS Ohio and Pennsylvania, as
guests of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railway. He decided to
settle in Chicago. He had mar
ried in Austin, Texas, in the fall
of 1872, and his wife joining him
at Philadelphia they came to Chi
cago together, where they have
lived to the present time.
He became interested in the
labor question in 1874. through
the efforts of the Chicago working
people tQ compel the Relief and
Aid Society" to render an account
of the several millions of dollars,
contributed by the whole world to
relieve the distress occasioned by
the Chicago fire of 1871.
1t was claimed by the working
people that rings of spectators
were corruptly using the money,
while the distressed and impover-
ished people for whom it was con-
tributed, were denied its use. The
newspapers defended the "Reliei
and Aid Society,"" which de-
nounced the dissatisfied working
men as communists, robbers
loafers." etc.
1t has since been established
that the working people we're
right in their accusations. In 1876
Parsons joined the "Workingmen's
Party" and soon became one Of
Its most trusted leaders. In 1876,
| July 4. he became a member oi
the Knights of Labor.
In 1877, he received as eandi-
date for county clerk on the work
ingmen's ticket, 1868 votes run
ming over 400 ahead Of his ticket
He has been nominated BY the
workingmen Of Chicago. three
times for alderman, twice fol
county clerk. and once for CON
gress. In 1873. he was a delegate
to the national convention of the
workingmen's party. In 1879 he
was a delegate to the national
convention of the Socialistic Labor
Party. and was there nominated
as the labor candidate for presi-
dent of the United States. He
declined the honor, not being Of
the constitutional age Thirty FIVE
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-19

speaker, j J. Callahan, who spoke
briefly Of the purpose Of the meet
ing and the solemnity of the oc-
casion.
Robert Blumenberg followed
with a speech Of thirty minutes
length. The speaker said:
Il stand up with the proud
knowledge that the best-thinking
workingmen in the United
States, by thousands and tens
of thousands. are sympathizers
with the unhappy families of our
murdered brothers, and that the
|great sword of the capitalist has
brought it about. The sympa-
thies of the whole civilized world
are with US. and at this hour the
honest thinking men are united
and assembled to express their
sorrow for the victims. = =
I'VE have the same occurrences
as we had 1850 years ago. Eigh-
teen hundred and fifty years ago
there was man named Jesus, who
went over the world to console
and tell the people they were all
equal. These men who preached
the same doctrine were murdered
last Friday. 2" = : =
I'VE. as workingmen, have to
feel with them. We must say
that they died for the advance
ment of the cause of the working
men. They had seen that there
was a wrong done to the great
masses of the working people.
The thousands and thousands who
were willing to work couldn't get
work. They had seen there was a
wrong in the present society, and
they saw that wrong had to be
abolished"
Mr.. Blumenberg referred peril
nently to the desperate efforts
made by the capitalist press of
Denver to prevent the holding of
funeral services to the memory of
our comrades. And how the rich
men and capitalists had conspired
to prevent our securing the hall in
which to hold the services.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Blum
enberg's speech the choir sang
Emerson's Hymn of Labor"
James H. Jack was announced
as the next speaker to address the
meeting. He said:
II am an American and my
people have been, for generations
before me. We are here To nav a
last sad tribute to our murdered
comrades in Chicago. AS an
American whose ancestors reach
back to the old continentals, and
who we're forever foremost in the
defense of liberty. who helped to
throw the tea into Boston harbor.
and fought to throw off the yoke
of England, | have right to
speak.
81 would be untrue to the mem
ory of those ancestors, would be
untrue to the memory of those
ancestors, would be untrue to
my brothers who fought for the
defense of the union. / would be
untrue to my sisters. who sat up
night after night working their
fingers to the bone making cloth
ing for the union army. ! would
be untrue to everything good and
just if / failed to lift up my voice
against this judicial murder. Men
and comrades. they died for you.
you horny-handed sons of toll. that
you might escape crucifxion."
Addresses of sympathy for the
orphans and other relatives of the
murdered comrades were given in
German by Robert Blumenberg.
and in English by ]. J. Callahan,
The following is a synopsis:
To-day we join with millions
of our fellow-toilers. in this and
other lands. in paying respect to
the memory of FIVE of the ablest
champions the cause of the peo-
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-19
"A. R. PARSONS.
Soldier, Statesman, Journalist
and Pioneer ii the Labor S
Agitation Field.
ALIFB BRIGHT and SpOYLESS
Ne Leaves . Rsssrl Which wiz Shine
RespSeaasat n the Coming
Years.

Social Science, Novsmber5.
The first Parsons family emigra-
ting from England to America
landed on the shores of Nara.
gansett bay in 1892. The Parson:
family and their descendants have
always been active in all
social, religious and political re-
form movements in America
Major General Samuel Parsons oi
Massachusetts, a direct ancestor
was an officer in the Revolution
of I776, and captain Parsons wa:
wounded at the battle of Bunker
Hill.
Albert Parsons was born June
"a, IS4S. in Montgomery, Alabama
He has nine brothers and sisters
His father, Samuel Parsons, set.
tied there at an early day. and
established a shoe and leather fac
tory. He was noted as a public
spirited and philanthropic man
He was an Universalist in religion
and an active prominent temper
ance advocate.
Albert's mother was a member
of the Tompkins- -Broadwell family
of New Jersey, and was well
known as an intelligent, good
woman of great spirituality ol
character, and a devout Methodist
One of thr Tompkins was with
Washington at the battles of Bran.
dywine, Monmouth and Valley
Forge. Albert's mother died
when he was two years old, and
his father died three years later.
His oldest brother General w
H. Parsons who was married anc
living at TYLER, Texas, became his
guardian. Y
Two years later the family
moved to the Texas frontier
where Albert became an expert
in the use of firearms, riding anc
hunting. In 1859 he went to Waco
Texas, where he lived one yea
with his sister (wife of Majol
Boyd). In 1860 he was appren
ticed to learn the printers trade
in the Galveston Meavs Office
When the rebellion broke out il
1861, though but thirteen years
old, he joined a local volunteer
company called the Lone StaI
Greys."
He wanted to enlist in the rebe
army. but his employer and guar
dian ridiculed the idea on account
of his age and size. and told hin
that it was all bluster anyway ane
the war would be over in sixty
days. Albert therefore tool
French leave" and joined a loca
artillery company. His military
enlistment expired in a year ane
he then joined Parsons Texa:
cavalry brigade. His brother
Maior-General w. H. Parsons
called by his soldiers wild Bill,
was at that time in command o
the entire cavalry outposts on the
west bank of the Mississippi rive
from Helena to the Red river
Albert was afterward a member o
the renowned McMolly scouts
He returned to Waco. Texas, a
the close of the war. and for
short time attended the university
at that place. This was followed
by learning the trade of type-set
ting. In 1868 he founded ane
edited a weekly newspaper, the
Spectator in Waco.
In it he advocated the accept
ance. in good faith. of the term:
of surrender and supported the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
constitutional amendments, and
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-19

4 The floral tributes were numer-
GUS and beautiful. There were
ten large pieces and a score of
smaller wreaths and garlands.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
WASHINGTON.
The Usual Thanksgiving Procla.
nation by the President,
Thursday, Nov. "a.
Cabinet Meeting---Jefferson Davis
and Family at the Georgia
State Fair.

WASHINGTON, October 25.-The follow
ing proclamation was made late this after
noon:
The goodness and mercy of God, which
has followed the American people during
oil the days of the past year, claim their
grateful recognition and humble acknowl-
edgment. By His omnipitant power he
has protected us from war and pestilence,
and from every national calamity; by his
gracious favor the earth has yielded a
generous return to the labor of the .hus-
b6ndmen, and every path of honest toll
has led to comfort and contentment; by
His loving kindness the hearts of our peo-
pie have been replenished with fraternal
sentiments and patriotic endeavors, and
by his unerring guidance we have been
directed in the way of national pros perity.
To the end that we may, with one accord,
testify our gratitude for all these bless
ings, |, Grover Cleveland, president of the
United States, do hereby designate and
set apart Thursday, the oath day of No
vember next, as a day of Thanksgiving and
prayer, to be observed by all the people of
the land. On that day let all secular work
and employment be suspended, and let
our people assemble in their accustomed
places of worship, and with prayer and
songs of praise give thanks to our
Heavenly Father for all that He has done
for us, while we humbly implore the for
giveness of our sins and the continuance
of His mercy.
Let families and kindred be reunited
on that day, and let their hearts be filled
with kindly cheer and affectionate rem
niscences be turned in thankfulness to the
source of all their pleasures, and the
giver of all that makes the day glad and
joyous, and in the midst of our people
and our happiness let us remember the
poor, the needy, the unfortunate, and by
our gifts of charity and ready benevo-
lence, let us increase the number of those
who, with grateful hearts, shall join in
our thanksgiving.
In witness whereof, have set my hand,
and caused the seal of the United States
to be her,unto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this
the 25th' day of October, IN the year of
our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty seven, and of the indepen-
dence of the United States, the one hun
dred and twelfth.
SEAL. GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President:
L. f. BAYARD, Secretary of State.